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Indian company licenses software from Medical College, UWM

AdvenioTecnoSys, a Kolkata, India, health care company, has licensed software that automatically assesses digital images of the liver from the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The software helps assess features on liver scans, such as scarring and fat deposits, said Joseph Bockhorst, and assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at UWM.

The licensing agreement gives Advenio six months to continue evaluating the software and look for funding to further develop it, said Brian Thompson, president of the UWM Research Foundation.

Along with Bockhorst, others who worked on the software were Samer Gawrieh, an associate professor of gastroenterology and hepatology at the Medical College, and Scott Vanderbeck, a former graduate student of Bockhorst's who now works at StammMedia.

Advenio was formed in 2010 to provide products and services to the image-processing and machine vision communities. The company participates in the Vision 2020 initiative to combat blindness.